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WASHINGTON LETTER.
Our Regular Correspondence.
The Pension Commissionership
scandal was the event of last week
in Washington. On all sides" de
nunciations, vigorous or mild, are
heard of General Sickles’ course
in the matter, some of the most
severe being uttered by his com
rades of the G. A. R., who seem
to be moved rather by the pain
ful amateurishness of General
Sickles in giving them away, than
by any regret or disapprobation
of the bargrin and sale methods
which he and the G. A. R. gener
alljg---according to the General-
adopted. One thing is certain as
a result of the scandal: that
whether the president did agree
to remove Commissioner Evans
in return for G. A. R. suppsrt
or whether Senator Scott of West
Virginia made a promise that he
would do so without authority
from the President; or whether
General Sickles does not tell the
truth about Senator Scott’s asser
tion(as the letter declares); in
any case, President McKinley wil
not now dare to remove Mr. Ev
ans for months or years to come
whatever he may have intended
to do before Generala Sickles
sprang into the arena. As General
Sickles was once a warm support
er of Commissioner Evans, some
curiosity aspto the quarrel between
them has been aroused. It seems
that this reculted over the mean
ing of a law on which Mr. Evans
and General Sickles were unable
to agree and which was referred
to Attourney-General Griggs for
construction. Mr. Griggs decided
in favor of Mr. Evan?’ conten
tion ; hence, the quarrel,
South Carolina proposes to test
the qonstitutionality of the exac
tions of the law requiring the
state to take out special licinses
both as wholesale and retail li
quor dealers on account of its
dispensary system. Briefs have
been filed by the Governor and
Attourney-General of the state
with the commissioner of Internal
Revenue, asking a refund of taxes
previouoly paid and the remission
of all others in the future. The
actual sum at present issue is less
than $5,000 but the principle is,
of course, far reaching. The en
tire dispensary system of South
Carolina is managed by a board
of commissioners, consisting of
three persons elected by the State
Legislature, with Columbia as its
headquarters. This Stat6 dispen
sary distributes supplies to
the county dispensaries, and
those in turn are manrged by
county dispensaries or agents, all
being under the board of State
Commissioners. The liquors are
sold as property of the State and
the profits accrue to the state.
The salaries of all the officials of
the dispensaries are fixed by law
and do not depend upon the
amount of their sales. In the brief
filed by the Commissioser. of In
ternal Revenue on behalf of the
state it is contended that there is
nothing in the laws of the United
States authorising the collection
of internal revenue taxes which
even impliedly authorizes the im
position of a tax against a State,
or its instrumentalities of govern
ment, and that such an act con
taining any provision taxing the
instrumentalities of the State
government would be to that ex
tent unconstitutional. It is con
tended further that the property
of a state and the means and in
strumentalities employed to carry
its laws into operation cannot be
taxed by the federal government,
and an opinion of the late Judge
Cooley on this question is quoted.
If the claim is rejected, as it will
■ probably .be, the matter will be
appealed to the courts.
Bank-Wreckers Gone Free-
That is a record unique iu the
history of the national executive
department which Hr. McKinley
has made. In the four years and a
third since his first inaugeration
the president has given freedom by
pardon and commutation to forty-
five wreckers and robbers of
banks.
Sometimes there have been sen
timental reasoning for clemency
Again, there has been the sugges-
tionof political expediency. More
often the exercise of executive
mercy has appeared in explicable
The number of thieving banx
officials pardoned by Mr. McKin
ley is about one tenth of the num
ber sent to prison. Is it true that
this class of offenders contains so
large a propostion of men who do
not deserve what, the law gives
them? It seems that a new chapter
stould be written in criminology
showing in how much finer clay
than the rough burglar is worked
the stealing teller or defaulting
cashier.—New York World.
Senator Mason’s Thrift
“I was standing in the lobby of
the Auditorium in Chicago,” re
marked ex-Congressman P. J
Somers over in the Plankinton
lobby recently,says the Milwaukee
Sentinel, “talking with Senator
William E. Mason of Illinois,
when a trampish looking fellow
came rushing in, and, addressing
him, said:
‘Billy lend me $10; I havs a
chance to make $8 in 15 minutes.’
“Billy went dow in his trousers,
fished up a $2 and a $1 note, and
passed them over to the man.
“ ‘I want $10 to make the deal,’
remarked the man as he stretched
fourth his hand for additional fi
nancial aid.
‘ You said you could make $8,
didn’t you?’
“ ‘Yes.’
‘Well, you’v made$3 and I’m $7
ahead. Seel’
“The man saw the ppint and
regretfully withdrew.”
It Dazzles The World.
No discovery in medicine has ev
er created one quarter of the ex
citement that has been caused by
Dr. King’s New Discovery for Con :
sumdtion. Its severest tests have
been on hopeless victims of Com-
sumption, Hemorrhage, Pneumo-
nsa, Pleurisy, and Bronchitis,
thousands of whom it has restored
to perfect health. For Coughs,
Colds, Asthma, Croup,Hay Fever,
Hoarseness and Whooping Cough
it is the quickest, surest cure in
rorld. It is sold by. H. M,
3jb,..Perry, Ga.,
irantees satisfaction or re.
. le mqney. Large bottles
1 $1. Trial bottles free.
There is more Catarrh in this
section of the country than all
other diseases put together, and
until the last few years was sup
posed to be incurable. For a great
many years doctors pronounced
it a local disease,and prescribed
ocal remedies, and by constantly
failing to cure with local treat
ment, pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to be
constitutional disease, and
therefore requires a constitution
al treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. J Cheney
& Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only
constitutional cure on the mar
ket. It is taken internally in dos
es from 10 drops to a teaspoonful.
It acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system
hey offer one hundred dollars for
any case it fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials.
Address, F. J. Cheney & Co.
Sold by druggists, 75c. Toledo, O.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
A dispatch from Binghampton,
N. Y., says : Ail accidental dis
covery of Elmer McCroy promises
to revolutionize tool manufacture
throughout the world. For years
scientists and others have been
endeavoring to discover a process
for tempering copper. Recently
Elmer McCroy, a 17-year-old lad
of Hollstead, while at work in the
vicinity, made the discovery,
how it was done or what the pro
cess is will not be told until such
steps have been taken as will in
sure to McCroy the benefits of
his discovery. Friends of McCroy
say that the government has a
standing offer of $6,000 for the
man who will furnish it with a
sucsessful formula for hardening
copper and McCroy intends to
win the prize.
\ i ;
“I wish to truthfully state to
you and the readers of these few
lines that, your Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure is the best and only cure for
dyspepsia I have ever come in con
tact with and I have used many
preparations.” John Beam,/West
Middlesex, Pa.” No preparation
equals Kodol Dyspepsia Cure,as it
contains all the natural degestants
It will digest all kinds of food and
can’t help but do you good. At
Holtzclaw’s Drugtore.
Some women who are not nat
urally pretty make up for it in
other ways.
Followed Editor’s Advice.
The Columbus Enquirer-
lias received the follawing le
from an appreciative subscriber,
telling the effects of following the
advice given by the enitor:
“I and my my father have been
reading your paper for fifty years
or more, and I wouldn’t miss a
copy of it for anything—it would
not seen natural to do without it.
A year or two ago the paper had
a nudiber of pointed editorials
urging farmers to raise everything
they needed at home. ‘What’s the
use of buying anything,’it said,
‘while you can raise it at home?’
Well, that thing,struck me. Pretty
soon I needed some corn whiskey,
for medical (and other) purposes,
and I made it. I have just finished
working out the sentence. I guess
you all meant well,but you didn’t
know what trouble you were get
ting your readers into.”
Water boils at a temperature of
213 degrees, but having been
brought to that temperature, it can
not be made any hotter. The reason
of this is not generally understood,
and yet it is quite simple. Boiling
is only another name for steam-mak
ing, the agitation and bubbling be
ing caused by the escape of the
steam into which the heat has con
verted the, particles of water. It is
the escape of the steam that pre
vents the water from getting any
hotter than 212 degrees, for it takes
heat away with it, thus keeping the
temperature from rising.—Ex.
“I am indebted to One Min
ute Cough Cure for my present
good health and my life. I was
treated in vain, by doctors for
ung trouble following la grippe
! took One Minute Cough Cure
and recovered my health.” Mr
E. H. Wise, Madison, Ga. At
Holtzclaw’s drug store.
Geo. Sickles says he is willing
to lead another army to fight for
pensions. No doubt of it; more
fighting means more pensions
and so runs the endless chain.—
Macon Telegraph.
You Enow What You Are Taking
When you take Grove’s Taste
ess Chill Tonic because the for
mula is plainly printed on every
jottie showing that it- is “imply
Iron and Quinine in a tasteless
form No cure, no pay. Price 50c
> every time
j you“
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Lumber, Sash,
Doors,
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Trimmings
and all kinds of mill work and builders supples from oiu
superior stock. Builders and contractors will find that
they get a superior grade of lumber and workmanship n
their line at lower prices than they can get elsewhere.
ZE3I_ L. IS GO.,
’Phone (87. FORT VALLEY, GA.
THIRD
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We Are Not fnly the Cheapest, but
Al>o tli^ Host Re«jutl)le Whiskey
Housy la Oeorgia,
Our line of business is largely one of confi
dence and therefore you want to deal with peo-
pe who will not make misrepresentations. We
guarantee everything we.sell j:.st as represent
ed, or will cheerfully refund your money.
For $3.25 we will deliver four i- ull quari s
of our famous
Anywhere in Georgia, express prepaid. Packed
in plain box: money refunded if not satisfacto
ry. Another good thing we offer is a pure
Kentucky Sour Mash—the DAxtfsc Bookk—at
$2.40 per gallon, also delivered, express pre
paid, anywhere in the otate. We are sole agents
for the famous Kennesaw Mountain Com
Whiskey, best in Georgia, only $2.00 per gallon,
and are the only people in the south selling a
pure, seven-year-old Mount Vernon Sye at $1.00
for a full quart, or $3.50 pe■- gallon. Everything
else just as cheap: we have goods from $1.25
per gallon up. Complete stock of everything.
Send, us a trial order. No charge for jiigs.
SAM & ED. WELCHaELbAUM.
Wholesale Liquor Dealers & Distillers’ Agents.
, 451 Cherry Street, Macon, Ga.
Kndal
Digests what you eat.
This preparation contains all of the
digestants and digests all kinds of
food. It gives instant relief and never
fails to cure. It allows you to eat all
the food you warit. The most sensitive
stomachs can take it. By its.use many
thousands of dyspeptics have been
cured after everything else failed. It
prevents formation of gas on the stom
ach, relieving all distress after eating.
Dieting unnecessary. Pleasant to take.
It can’t help
but do you good
prepared only by E. G. DeWitt & Go., Chicago
vthe $1. bottle contains 2% times the 50c. size.
BRING US YOUn JOB WORK. SATIS
FACTION GUARANEETD.
When 1 you come to M^icon call at my repository and see
the most complete line of Vehicles ever shown in Macon,
including every size in FARM WAGOINS from one to,
aix-hor.-e. In pleasure vehicles everything from a Road
Cart at $17.50 to the most handsome Rubber-Tired
Victoria at $750 00.
In Automobiles:
“Locomobiles” for two and four passengers; u Auto-
rettes” for one passenger. Our Locomobiles are guaran
teed to run from ten to fifteen miles per hour on country
roads,regardless of hills or sand,at a cost Ofl cent per mile.
When you need anything on wheels write or call.
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ER’S.
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I am better prepared than ever to supply your wants in
Hardware, Stoves, Cutlery, Tinware,
WOODEN WARE,
farming Implements,
Hi#! m'sms, fill.
II buy goods for spot cash,
anybody in Macon.
und therefore I sell as low as
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postal^
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